The Online Notepad is a place to write things down that's always one click away. Open the page, start typing in the notepad at the top, and your note saves itself in this browser as you write. Keep as many notes as you like, search them, and copy or download any of them. There's no account, no app to install, and your notes are never uploaded.
Sometimes you just need to jot down a phone number, a shopping list, or a paragraph you'll finish later, without opening a word processor or signing in to anything. An online notepad with no login is the quickest way to do that, and because it saves automatically, you won't lose your words when you close the tab.
Your notes save as you type
There's no Save button to forget. About half a second after you stop typing, the note is stored in your browser's local storage, and the status above the note shows Saved in this browser. Close the tab, restart the computer, and come back tomorrow: your notes are still there, and the last one you worked on opens first.
Ctrl+S (⌘S on a Mac) saves straight away if you want to be sure, although you never need it.
Keep as many notes as you need
Select New note to start a fresh page for each idea, list, or draft. The first line of a note becomes its title in the list, with a short preview of the following text underneath, so you can tell notes apart at a glance. The notes you edited most recently are at the top. Titles are cut at 60 characters, so it helps to start a note with a short line that says what it's about, such as Groceries or Ideas for Sam's birthday.
Empty notes aren't kept, so a note you open by mistake and leave blank disappears on its own. Select Delete to remove a note you no longer need. The notepad asks you to confirm first, because a deleted note can't be brought back.
Search every note
Type in Search notes to show only the notes that contain every word you type. Search looks through the whole text of each note, not just the title, and it ignores capitals and accents, so cafe finds Café. Clear the search box to see every note again.
Copy or download a note
Copy puts the whole note on your clipboard, ready to paste into an email, a chat, or a document. Download saves it as a .txt file named after its title, so a note that starts with Groceries becomes Groceries.txt. The file opens in Notepad, TextEdit, Word, Google Docs, or any other app that reads text. On iPhone and iPad, downloads go to the Files app; on Android, to the Downloads folder.
To turn a note into a tidy document with page numbers, paste it into the text to PDF converter.
Back up your notes or move them to another device
Notes live in one browser on one device, so they don't sync to your phone or another computer on their own. To move them, or to keep a copy somewhere safe, select Back up all. Every note is saved in one file named with today's date, such as notes-backup-2026-11-08.json. It's a small text file, so you can also keep it in cloud storage or email it to yourself.
On the other device, open this page, select Import, and choose the backup. Its notes are added to the ones already there, and when the same note is in both, the newer copy is kept. You can import plain text files too, up to 2 MB each, by selecting Import or dropping them onto the note area. Each file becomes a new note.
Where your notes are stored
Notes are kept in this browser's local storage on your device and are never sent to a server, so nobody else, including us, can read them. Browsers give each website a few megabytes of local storage, enough for thousands of pages of text, and one note can hold up to 1,000,000 characters. If storage fills up, the notepad tells you, so you can download or delete large notes.
Clearing this site's data or your browsing data deletes the notes, and a private or incognito window forgets them when it closes. If the browser isn't saving, a warning appears above the notepad. For anything important, download the note, or back up all your notes now and then. The privacy policy has the details.
Two tabs and shared computers
You can open the notepad in two tabs. A change saved in one shows up in the other, but if you type in both at the same time, the last one saved wins, so edit each note in one tab at a time. On a phone, the notepad works the same way, with the list of notes above the text.
Anyone who uses the same browser profile can open this page and read your notes. On a shared or public computer, download what you need, then delete your notes before you leave.
Ideas for a quick online notepad
- Lists: shopping lists, packing lists, and to-do lists you tick off during the day.
- Things to remember: phone numbers, addresses, order numbers, and directions.
- Drafts: an email, a message, or a post you want to get right before you send it.
- Meetings and calls: notes you type while you listen, then copy into an email.
- Links and snippets: web addresses, code, and bits of text you need again later.
For one longer file, the online text editor adds find and replace, case changes, line sorting, an undo history, and opening files from your computer. The notepad is free and works in any modern browser on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, Linux, iPhone, iPad, and Android. Start writing above.